LINGUIST List 18.2709

Mon Sep 17 2007

Calls: Applied Ling,Socioling/USA; Historical Ling,Pragmatics/Hungary

Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz <anialinguistlist.org>

Directory         1.    Stephen Hinman, 5th Annual TALGS Conference
         2.    Dániel Z. Kádár, Historical (Im)Politeness Research
Message 1: 5th Annual TALGS Conference
Date: 14-Sep-2007
From: Stephen Hinman <swh0514ecu.edu>
Subject: 5th Annual TALGS Conference
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Full Title: 5th Annual TALGS Conference

Date: 16-Feb-2008 - 16-Feb-2008 Location: Greenville, North Carolina, USA Contact Person: Stephen Hinman Meeting Email: talgsecu.edu Web Site: http://core.ecu.edu/engl/talgs

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 09-Dec-2007

Meeting Description:

TALGS (Teachers/Applied Linguistics Graduate Students) is a small, student-run conference aimed at providing a relaxed but serious environment for graduate students and professionals working in TESL/TEFL and a variety of applied linguistic fields to present their work and receive feedback. The 5th annual TALGS Conference will be held at East Carolina University on Saturday, February 16, 2008 in the Bate Building on main campus. The TALGS committee is currently accepting call for papers/presentations and is proud to have keynote speaker Walt Wolfram from North Carolina State University. Mr. Wolfram's discussion, Southern-Bred ESL: Hispanic English in the Mid-Atlantic South, will explore how dialects, particularly Southern dialects, affect the acquisition of English as a second language. The presentation considers the emerging English of Hispanics in the Mid-Atlantic South based on current sociolinguistic research in representative urban and rural contexts of North Carolina.

Research Meets Practice: We encourage submissions from graduate students and teachers whose research and practice fall broadly under the umbrella of applied linguistics and TESL/TEFL. We welcome cross-disciplinary proposals with relevance to language learning and/or language teaching from a variety of fields, including, for example, sociolinguistics, discourse studies, sociology, education, foreign languages, and psychology. Presentations reporting on action research (inside and outside the classroom), works in progress, and pilot research, as well as proposals for discussion sessions and workshops are welcome. For more information, please visit the TALGS website at http://core.ecu.edu/engl/talgs.

Submit your proposal at http://core.ecu.edu/engl/talgs by December 9, 2007.

Pre-Registration: Conference participants can pre-register online at http://core.ecu.edu/engl/talgs/conference/registration.htm by January 13, 2008.
Message 2: Historical (Im)Politeness Research
Date: 14-Sep-2007
From: Dániel Z. Kádár <danielkadaryahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Historical (Im)Politeness Research
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Full Title: Historical (Im)Politeness Research

Date: 02-Jul-2008 - 04-Jul-2008 Location: Budapest, Hungary Contact Person: Dániel Z. Kádár Meeting Email: danielkadaryahoo.co.uk

Publication: The organisers will publish a volume containing a selection of papers presented at the panel. This edited collection of papers is going to be published in early 2009 at the Linguistic Insights Series of the Swiss publisher Peter Lang, Berne. It should be emphasised that the volume will not be a proceedings: whilst every panel participant will be invited to submit a paper version of her/his presentation to us, the submitted papers will go through a blind peer-review process and hence will be subject of acceptance/refusal. The deadline for submitting ready papers is October 15, 2008. More information about the volume will be circulated amongst the panel participants soon after the notification of acceptance.

Inquiries: Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact with the organisers at the aforementioned e-mail addresses. Please also check the conference website www.nytud.hu/lprg for updates.